Jun 14 2023
Artist and Curator in Conversation: Jin-me Yoon with Euijung McGillis

Artist and Curator in Conversation: Jin-me Yoon with Euijung McGillis

Presented by The Image Centre at The Image Centre

Join artist Jin-me Yoon and Euijung McGillis, Assistant Curator of Photographs Collection at the National Gallery of Canada, for a virtual conversation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Scotiabank Photography Award: Jin-me Yoonon view at The Image Centre April 29–August 5, 2023.

About the Exhibition

This exhibition, composed of seminal series along with new works, celebrates artist Jin-me Yoon’s lens-based art. Korean-born and based in Vancouver, Yoon reflects critically upon the construction of national and diasporic identities in relation to her personal experience and broader geopolitical contexts. The artist, winner of the Scotiabank Photography Award (2022), repurposes visual stereotypes and dominant narratives to explore gender, culture, and citizenship in an accelerated, globalized era. Yoon’s work also reframes viewers’ understanding of some of the most pressing issues today, including the impacts of colonialism, militarization, displacement, and environmental devastation.

Organised by The Image Centre and presented by Scotiabank in partnership with the CONTACT Photography Festival. 

About the Artist

Over the last three decades, Korean-born Vancouver-based Jin-me Yoon has been presented in over 200 exhibitions across North America, Asia, and Australia, as well as select institutions worldwide. Most recently, one of her films screened at the Venice Biennale, she was presented in a solo exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and a touring survey organized by the Musée d’art de Joliette. Yoon is represented in 20 public and corporate collections; she received the prestigious Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, was shortlisted for the Art Gallery of Ontario Grange Prize, and was inducted as a Fellow into the Royal Society of Canada, recognized for her research contributions in art.

Admission Info

Free Admission

Phone: (416) 979-5164

Email: imagecentre.gallery@torontomu.ca

Dates & Times

2023/06/14 - 2023/06/14

Location Info

The Image Centre

33 Gould St, Toronto, ON M5B 1W1

Parking Info

By car, drive to Dundas Street, between Yonge and Church Streets. Turn north onto Victoria Street. There is a Toronto Metropolitan University parking lot approximately half way up the street, at which point Victoria is closed for pedestrian access only. Turn left to access the lot. The Image Centre is opposite Lake Devo, directly across from the pedestrian half of Victoria street.

There is also a Green P parking lot on the South Side of Yonge and Dundas square here.